Record card or like member for indexes or files



Dec. 31, 1929.. c; s. CAMPBELL ET AL RECORD C'ARD 0R LIKE MEMBER FORINDEXES OR FILES 'FiledOC'C- 10. 1921 Patented Dec. 31, 1929 UNITED,STATES PATENT ori-Ice CHARLES S. CAMPBELL AND ALFRED E. HUNT, QF NEWHAVEN, CONNECTICUT, AS-

SIGNORS, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO REMINGTON RANDl INC. OF NEW YORK,

N. Y., A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE RECORD CARD OR LIKE MEMBER FOR INDEXESOR FILES Application filed October 10, 1921. Serial No. 506,819.`

rIhis invention relates to record members for indexes or tiles and moreparticularly to that class of the latter in which each of the referencelmembers is overlapped by @the succeeding-member and projects a shortdistance beyond the latte-r so as to disclose `a `small portion of itssurface to enable the indicia thereon to be read without themanipulation of the members.

Our invention is particularly applicable .to those indexes or tileswherein a plurality `.of such reference `members are icanried by or upona `suitable support and Vusually these members are arranged to slidealong suitable guides and to lbeeasily detached .Itromthe sa port andreplaced thereupon. In indexes of this type there is a limit `to thenumber Lof reference members which may be secured upon vthe support atone time and also a ylimit to "the .amount of 'reference ,material whichmay be placed upon one of .the members. itt is, therefore, oftendesirable to 'provide .each of the reference members with a relativelylargevarea upon which reference tmaterial and indicia ,may kbe placed.

Our invention, therefore, fhas jfor one Y.of its objects the lprovisionof .a reference member or Ycard -with which Ythe above advantages, amongothers, are secured.

Another object of our invention is to Aprovide 'a sectional referencemember having `a section adapted lto tbe attached to a Asuitable supportand 'a reference-bearing section hinged thereto.

A still further-object of our invention is'to provide a reference memberhaving a pl=urality of .leaves orthe yreception oftherefer.- enceindicia.

Still another object of :our invention is 'to provide `a referencemember comprisinga stub `section for :attachment to a suitable supportand ya .referencerbearing :section hinged theretojcomprisinga bookhaving a plurality of rleaves.

To these and other ends the invenztiongconsists in the novel vfea-turesand combinations of `parts `to be hereinafter described and claimed. y

IIn 'the accompanying drawings iFig. 1 is a trontelevational view ofa.plu-

rality ot reference members of a modified form attached to a suitablesupport;

F 1g. 2 is a sectional view of one ot' such members along 2 2 of Fig. 1;Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, but showmg the leaves of thereference section separa-ted;

Fig. 4 is a side elevational view of a plurality of reference `membersof slightly modified 'form in `their A,nested relation.;

Fig. 5 is ga sectional view of .a modified ar.- rangementfof the cards.

Fig. 6 is an enlargedsectiOIla-,l viewon 2li-'ne 6-.6 of Fig. 1. i

To illustrate the principles 4of our inven- 1 tion, we have shown asupporting ,member oft the general type shown in Patent No, 1,048,956,granted December 24, 1,912 tolrv ing Fishenwherein a suit-ablymountedguide strip is ,adapted to be vengaged by tongues proJecting fromthe rear jofeach of the refen ence members. This l1 engitudinally.extend mg 4,guide strip 123 is provided with treeside edgesor tlangeswhich lmaybe slightly-raised from the body .of the strip and below whichare adapted 5to engage the ,tongues 12 of the reference membersdesignated :generally bv the numeral 13. u

lThe reference members consist generally of a -stub portion ateither theupperor lthe lower end rthereof depending upon the position upon whichthey are placed upon the support and a section for 'the reception ,of

reference material which is hinged to the stub portion.

The reference members are yprovided with stub sections 17havingthe.depending tongues 18 landhinged to which arebooks .19comprismg a plurality of 'leaves'. -As shown, these books are composedof a piece-of flexible material, such as paper or the like, folded uponitself to form the two Vsheets 20 and 21. yPreferably the sheets arefolded atsuch a ,point that the material of one will extend somedistance below the other, so that certain reference material upon one ofthe-sheets may always be exposed. The book l19 is hinged to the ystubsection 17 fby means of a strip of clot-h or'the like 22 rpasted tofrthe back oFfeach o-saidportions. This provides a convenient andsatisfactory hinged connection between the two sections.

It will be obvious that each of the stub sections is received betweenthe tongues and the body of the adjacent stub section, so that aplurality of these reference members may be supported upon a strip 23similar to the strip 10 in overlapping nested relation. In such positionit is seen that the rear sheet 20 of each of the books entirely coversthe front sheet 21 of the preceding book, but leaves a small portionofthe sheet 20 of the latter book exposed. The edge of the upper sheet21 of the next to the top book is noted by the dotted line 24 in Fig. l.

If desired, however, the tongues may be cut out at such a distance fromthe edge of the stub portion of the reference member that the margins ofboth of the sheets may be left exposed. Such an arrangement is shown inFigs. e and 6. Moreover, it will be obvious that, if desired, a greaternumber of sheets than the two shown may be provided. In fact thereference book may contain almost any number of sheets desired and stillbe hinged to the stub section 17 and aplurality of these Sections bearranged in overlapping relation upon the support, as shown in Fig. l.

In either of the arrangements shown in F igs.l l and 4L, it is notedthat the edges of no two leaves or cards will coincide and thus theedges of the leaves are presented to the fingers of the user singly andthus may be easily manipulated, as it is never necessary to separate twoor more coincident leaves in order to turn one without the other.

Also additional reference material area be secured by simply pasting tothe sheets or pages of the book additional slips of paper.

A particularly advantageous feature of the provision of a hingedreference-bearing Section in combination with certain forms of attachingmeans, of which the one shown is an illustration, resides in the factthat two or more of the cards may be superposed and secured upon theholder in this position, thus greatly increasing the reference bearingor posting surface which may be available upon one holder. This is shownmore particularly in Fig. 5 wherein two superimposed cards Y; and c arefiled between an outer card a and an inner card cl, the stubs of thesuperimposed cards b and c being nested between 'the tongues 12 and thestub body of the card a, and the stub of thecard d being nested betweenthe superimposed tongues 12 and the superimposed stub bodies of thecards ZJ and 0.

' The superimposed cards b and c in this arthe two superposed cards band c which, however, occupy no more space longitudinally upon the-guide l() than a single card. Itis apparent that as the cards areusually nested, as shown in Fig. l, the number of them and therefore theamount of posting surface available is limited by the length of theholder or guide strip 10. The superposition of the cards as shown inFig. 5, therefore, results in the multiplication of the posting surfaceavailable one one holder.

This superposition is, of course, particularly desirable where thehinged sections are provided as this enables the outer card to be nswung over, the user thereby gaining access to the one below.

The cards shown in Figs. 2-4 may also be attached to the guides insuperposed position as shown in Figs. Zland 6 and eight posting surfacesare available, requiring, however, no more longitudinal space upon theholder than is normally occupied by one card with two or four postingsurfaces;

If desired, more than two cards may be placed upon the holder insuperposed position and the number of posting surfaces thereby increasedto any extent practicable in View of the material of which the cards aremade.A

Vhile we have illustrated and described some preferred forms of ourinvention, 'it will be understood that the same is not to be limited tothe' exact details shown, but is capable of many modiiications andvariations which lie within the spirit of the invention and within thescope of the appended claims.

Vhat we claim is:

l. In an index or file, a support including a strip having offset edgeanges and a plurality of reference 'members adapted to be secured onsaid support, each of said reference memberscomprising a stub portionhaving tongues formed from the body thereof to engage said offset edgefianges, and a book section comprising a group of reference-bearingleaves hinged to said stub portion.

2. In an index or file, a reference member comprising a stub sect-ionhaving tongues cut therefrom for attachment to a support, and a group ofleaves hinged to said stub section, a plurality of said referencemembers being adapted to be superposed whereby the tongue of an outermember will extend through the opening left by the tongue of an innermember to engage a support.

3. A pluralit-y of reference members, a support therefor, said membershaving stub portions adapted to be attached to said support in nestedrelation, and a group of referencebearing leaves hingedly connected toeach stub portion.-

4. In an index or file, a support, a plurality of referencememberssecured thereto each including a stub section having means at itsintermediate portion-by which it is attached to the support and nestedwith an adjacent stub llc' y section and a book section hinged to thestub.

5. In an index or file, a plurality of stub sections each beingl adaptedto be nested With an adjacent one, said stub Sections being nested andslidably connected to a support at their intermediate portions, and abook section hinged to each stub section.

6. In an index or file, a guide strip having offset edge flanges, and anindex member comprising a stub section having ears cut therefrom at anintermediate portion thereof by which it is slidably mounted on saidstrip, and a book having a plurality of leaves hinged to said section.

7. In an index or le, a reference member comprising a base portion, asheet folded intermediate its ends to form a pair of reference-bearingsections. and a hinge strip secured to said sheet adjacent the fold andto a margin of said base portion, said base portion and sheet lying inthe same plane in one position.

8. In an index or file, a reference member comprising a base portion, asheet folded intermediate its ends to form a pair of superposedreference-bearing sections, and means hingedly connecting` said sheet tosaid base portion in edge to edge relation.

9. In an index or file, a reference member comprising a base portion ofheavy sheet material, a plurality of superposed referencebearing sheets,of substantially thin material, and means hingedly connecting saidreference-bearing sheets in edge-to-edge relation to said base portion,the aggregate thickness of said sheets approximating that of the baseportion.

In Witness whereof, We have hereunto set our hands on the 5th day ofOctober, 1921.

CHARLES S. CAMPBELL. ALFRED E. HUNT.

CERTIFICATE 0F CORRECTIN.

Patent No. 1,741,283. Y Granted December 31, i929, to

CHARLES S. CAMPBELL ET AL.

It is hereby certified that error appears in tite printed specificationof the above numbered patent requiring correction as follows: Page Z,lines 7 and 8, strike out "similar to the strip 10"; line 37, after theWord "area" insert the word "may"; lines 68 and 73, for the numeral "l0"read "23", and line 76, for "one" first occurrence read "on"; and thatthe said Letters Patent should be read with these corrections thereinthat the same may conform to the record of the case in the PatentOffice.

Signed andrsealed this 4th day of March, A. D. 1930.

M. J. Moore, (Seal) Acting Commissioner of Patents.

